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An Arkansas man was arrested Thursday after police accused him sending death threats to CNN anchor Don Lemon. According to the Baxter County Sheriff’s office, Benjamin Craig Matthews made 40 calls to CNN from a period between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2

“The content of these calls ranged from general harassment, threat of bodily injury, and calls threatening the life of a CNN journalist. More than 40 such calls had been received by CNN from the same person,” read a press release from the sheriff’s office, adding that Matthews had been booked on felony charges of “Terroristic Threatening and Harassing Communications.”

USA Today and local media reports said the anchor in question was Don Lemon. In one such call, Matthews asked to be transferred to Lemon’s “dead body hanging from a tree,” the paper reported.

The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a rural Mountain Home man, 39 year old BENJAMIN CRAIG MATTHEWS, on charges of Terroristic Threatening and Harassing Communications based upon a complaint received by the Atlanta, Georgia Police Department.

On November 2nd, the Sheriff’s Office was contacted by an Investigator with the Atlanta Police Department who is assigned to the Homeland Security Investigation Unit. The Investigator stated they had taken a complaint report from the CNN Headquarters in Atlanta that telephone calls had been received at CNN Headquarters making threats against CNN staff between October 31st and November 2nd. The content of these calls ranged from general harassment, threat of bodily injury, and calls threatening the life of a CNN journalist. More than 40 such calls had been received by CNN from the same person.

Information obtained by the Atlanta PD Investigator indicated that all of these calls had been made from a cell phone belonging to BENJAMIN MATTHEWS of Mountain Home, Arkansas. Audio recordings of the calls indicated they were all made by the same person. Someone who has personal knowledge of BENJAMIN MATTHEWS listened to the recordings and attested to the fact that it was the voice of BENJAMIN MATTHEWS. Additional investigation found that MATTHEWS had made other recent phone calls to another television network, as well as to various public officials and organizations.

Based upon this evidence, Baxter County Sheriff’s Investigators obtained a bench warrant for the arrest of BENJAMIN MATTHEWS on November 6th. MATTHEWS was taken into custody and transported to the Baxter County Detention Center where he was booked yesterday afternoon on charges of:

This mfer is clearly a f#cking clown, but he don't deserve to die for being a clown.

If Talib Kweli woulda just beat Don Lemon's ass a couple years back when Don was being an ass hole with him Don wouldn't be so powerful today.

Talib kelli is just too chill of a dude to something like that, dude is like mellow,you don't even have to know him personally to know that, you can just listen to reflection eternal, maybe that's also hi-tek's production too though, good music

Talib kelli is just too chill of a dude to something like that, dude is like mellow

Don Lemon had him kinda pissed. Idk that Talib was anywhere close to punching dude & I doubt he was, but I wished he had at the time & every time Don's dumb ass gay face is on TV trying to get attention once again I wish Talib would come outta nowhere & punch him in his dumb gay face. F#ck that dude.